INREVIEW is a free, printed quarterly publication dedicated to presenting critical responses and engaging extended conversations about art in the Twin Cities. This publication sparked from the realization that there is a need within the art community for further dialogue surrounding visual arts and exhibitions throughout Minneapolis and St. Paul.

INREVIEW includes contributions from a broad range of writers who are artists, curators, educators, students and critics. Each are critical, curious and invested in the arts community.

INREVIEW is published by Chris Larson and funded by the University of Minnesota Imagine Fund Grant.

SPRING 2017 FEATURES

SHADOWLANDS

Ken Gonzales-DayMinnesota Museum Of American ArtOn view January 19 – April 16, 2017

POSTCOMMODITY

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ELECTRIC MACHETE STUDIOS

SPRING 2017 WRITERS

MARA DUVRA

Mara Duvra is a visual artist whose work combines photography, poetry, video, sculpture, and her experience as an artist who reads, writes, and collects to create and arrange objects as text and text as objects / studying the malleable qualities of images and poetry to create installations that explore stillness and interiority to condense both voice and matter.

GRETCHEN GASTERLAND-GUSTAFSSON

Gretchen Gasterland-Gustafsson is an assistant professor in MCAD’s liberal arts department. She is privileged to teach undergraduate and graduate art students, just as she used to be prior to finishing her Ph.D. in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society at the University of Minnesota. Her interests in art and design involve both practice and research in areas that coalesce around the politics of everyday life in architecture, printmaking, design, and contemporary art.

CHRISTINA SCHMID

Christina Schmid thinks with art and writes as critical practice. Her essays and reviews have been published both online and in print, in anthologies, journals, artist books, exhibition catalogs, and digital platforms. She works at the University of Minnesota’s Department of Art in Minneapolis as an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Art and Social Practice. Her teaching focuses on contemporary art and theory, at the intersection of aesthetics, ecology, and ethics.

SARA NICHOL

Sara Nichol is a Minneapolis based artist and arts administrator. Most recently she has helped coordinate the Art Shanty Projects and Rock the Garden. Her practice is primarily photographic, investigating performance, memory, and labor using homemade machines. She received her BFA from the University of Minnesota in 2013.

FOREST LEWIS

Forest Lewis is a writer based in Minneapolis.

MARY L. COYNE

Mary L. Coyne is a curator and writer based in Minneapolis where she is an Exhibition Curatorial Assistant at the Walker Art Center. She formerly was the Cunningham Research Fellow from 2014-2016 at the Walker Art Center and held positions as a graduate intern at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2012), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, (2012), Los Angeles MOCA (2011). In 2014 she curated and organized programs at Pseudo Empire, a non-commercial art space in Brooklyn and has developed curatorial projects in Los Angeles, New York and Minneapolis. Her writing has appeared in Art Journal,AfterImage, Artpulse,,The Journal for Curatorial Studies, and Museum and Curatorial Studies Review, among other publications. Mary holds a MA in Art (Curatorial Studies) from California State University, Long Beach and a BA in Art History from the University of Southern California.

DAMON STANEK

Damon Stanek is an art historian specializing in contemporary art and theory, photography, and cinema studies. His research interest is focused upon the emergence of projected images in museum and gallery spaces and examines the modes of circulation for these artists’ films and videos. Currently, he teaches at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

LOCATIONS

Augsburg College

The Bindery Projects

David Peterson Gallery

Intermedia Arts

Macalester College

Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Midway Contemporary Art Library

Minneapolis Institute of Art Gift Shop

Minnesota Museum of American Art

Soo Visual Arts Center

St. Catherine University

St. Cloud State University

The White Page

U of M Regis Center for the Arts

Walker Art Center Gift Shop

Art Materials

Beyond Repair / Midtown Global Market

Color Space Art and Imaging

Dead Media

Highpoint Center for Printmaking

Honeycomb Salon

Hymie's Vintage Records

Treehouse Records

Wet Paint

Augsburg College

Bethel University

Minneapolis Community & Technical College

University of St. Thomas

Boneshaker Books

Common Good Books

Eat My Words Bookstore

Loft Literary Center / Open Book

Magers & Quinn Booksellers

Subtext Books

The Book House

Askov Finlayson

The Bad Waitress

Black Forest Inn

Diamonds Coffee Shoppe

Forage Modern Workshop

Galactic Pizza

Glam Doll Donuts

Hard Times Cafe

Maeve's Cafe

Modern Times

Moose and Sadie's

Seward Cafe

SiP Coffebar

The first issue is on stands in over 50 locations across the metro area. Some of the places you can find INREVIEW include:

Augsburg College The Bindery ProjectsDavid Petersen GalleryIntermediary ArtsMacalester College